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Thursday in the Fourth Week of Lent March 23, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on Saint Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners, who is always depicted holding a garden spade. Fiacre was an Irish traveling hermit who settled at Meaux, in Brittany. There he is said...

Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent March 22, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on Saint Piran, a monk of Cornwall and the patron saint of Cornish tin miners. It is said that Piran left his home in Ireland in order to share his faith in north Cornwall. A number...

Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Lent March 21, 2023 Today’s online Lenten reflection is a prayer from the Scottish tradition of the Outer Hebrides, recorded by Alexander Carmichael, a traveling folklorist who visited these islands and translated the prayer into the kind...

Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent Feast of St. Joseph March 20, 2023 Today is the feast day of St. Joseph in the liturgical calendar of the church, but in keeping with our series of meditations and prayers in the Celtic tradition, our Lenten reflection focuses on...

Friday in the Third Week of Lent Feast of St. Patrick March 17, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on the life and witness of Saint Patrick, the famous Apostle to the Irish and one of the three patron saints of Ireland. Patrick was most likely born on the...

Thursday in the Third Week of Lent March 16, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection takes the form of a lorica, or “breastplate” prayer, which in the monastic tradition of early medieval Ireland and Scotland is a type of prayer recited for protection (the word, lorica, is a...

Wednesday in the Third Week of Lent March 15, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on Saint Nectan, a Welsh hermit, evangelist and martyr of Hartland from the late fifth century. The eldest of 24 children of Brychan, the saintly king of Powys in Wales, Nectan sailed...

Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent March 14, 2023 Today’s online Lenten reflection comes from a prayer that was traditionally said by women in the morning in communities on the far Western coast of Scotland. The original language of this prayer would have been Scottish...

Friday in the Second Full Week of Lent March 10, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection takes the form of a prayer from medieval Scotland that involves the unlikely trope or theme of shape-shifting. Several early medieval Irish saints’ narratives feature the saint and his or...